This list of University of Georgia people includes alumni, affiliates, and current students of the University of Georgia. Honorary degree recipients are not included.
Chief executives and presidents of the University of Georgia
Alumni
Arts, media and entertainment
Business and industry
Economics and finance
Eugene Robert Black, chairman of the Federal Reserve Eugene R. Black Sr. former president of the World Bank, chairman of the Brookings Institution, special adviser to the president on Southeast Asian Social and Economic Development, board member of multiple corporations and foundations, honorary Doctor of Laws from Princeton University, chair of the Peabody Award Board of Jurors Reta Jo Lewis, president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States Robert D. McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Bernard Ramsey, senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee of Merrill Lynch Charles S. Sanford Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Bankers Trust
Educators
Government and the law
Media and journalism
Medicine
Military
Ministry and religion Isaac P. Mendes, rabbi Benjamin M. Palmer,Benjamin M. Palmer writer and theologian, first national moderator of Presbyterian Church, professor at Amherst College and Columbia Theological Seminary, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans (1856–1902) George Foster Pierce, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, president of Wesleyan College and Emory University David Platt, pastor and author of the New York Times best seller Radical
Scientific research Wyatt Anderson, geneticist, professor of genetics at University of Georgia, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of ScienceWyatt Anderson, People in Genetics at UGA, faulty members, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia. Cornelia Bargmann, neurobiologist, Wiesel Professor of Genetics and Neurosciences at the Rockefeller University, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Sir David Baulcombe, FRS, British plant scientist and geneticist; post-doctoral fellow 1978–1980, now Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge Alfred Blalock, medical doctor, pioneered heart surgery and performed groundbreaking research on shock Eugene T. Booth, Rhodes Scholar, nuclear physicist; member of the historic Columbia University team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States; worked on the Manhattan Project James E. Boyd, physicist, mathematician, and founder of Scientific Atlanta, part of Cisco David F. Clayton, neuroscientist, biochemist, and academic; professor and chair of the Department of Genetics & Biochemistry at Clemson University A. Jamie Cuticchia, bioinformatics pioneer with expertise in the fields of genetics, bioinformatics, and genomics; responsible for the collection of the data constituting the human gene map; director of human genome database Leonard DeLonga, sculptor, painter, and professor at Mount Holyoke College Charles Herty, academic, chemist and businessman; namesake of UGA's Herty Field Cynthia Kenyon, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, University of California-San Francisco, member of National Academy of Sciences Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author, professor, president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center, former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI), internationally known for his best-selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist Eugene Odum, biologist known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology, author of the first ecology textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology Beth Shapiro, MacArthur Fellow and National Academy of Sciences evolutionary molecular biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Kerwin Swint, political scientist and author, known for his research and writing in the fields of political campaigns, mass media, and political history
Sports
Distinguished faculty and staff The University of Georgia has boasted many distinguished researchers and scholars on its faculty. Notable past and present faculty and staff include:
Administration
Donald R. Eastman III, served as the vice president for university relations at UGA 1991–1998; vice president for strategic planning and public affairs at UGA 1998–2001Dr Eastman, Curriculum Vitae, Eckerd College. Karen Holbrook, former senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at UGA; former president of Ohio State UniversityKaren Holbrook, Ph.D. , vice president for research and innovation, president, USF Research Foundation, Inc., board of trustees for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Arts and humanities
Education
Donna Alvermann, educator, currently university-appointed Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education at University of GeorgiaDonna E. Alvermann, faculty page , Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia
Mathematics
Andrew Granville, professor of mathematics and David C. Barrow Chair of Mathematics at UGA, 1991–2002Granville, Andrew, professional resume, Andrew Granville's personal website. Carl Pomerance, former professor of mathematics at University of Georgia, distinguished number theorist (Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff conjecture)Pomerance, Carl, "Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Paul Erdos and me", USNA Midshipman-Faculty Colloquium, April 25, 2002 Robert Rumely, professor of mathematics at UGA and numbers theory researcher (Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test)Shearer, Lee, "Math professor brings students into the fold with origami", Online Anthens, July 26, 2009.
Scientific research
Sports
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